Our Leadership

Dean Robert M. Dammon

Robert M. Dammon is the ninth dean of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, a post that he assumed in May 2011. A researcher and professor of financial economics, he joined the faculty in 1984 and was appointed to serve as the school’s associate dean for education from 2008 to 2011. Professor Dammon earned his MBA (1980) and Ph.D. (1984) in financial economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Professor Dammon’s most recent research focuses on lifetime savings, investing and asset allocation and his work has been published in the most prestigious finance and economic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Finance. Among the awards he has received for his scholarship is the 2004 “TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.”

He has developed and taught courses in corporate finance, corporate restructuring and business valuation to both MBA students and corporate executives from around the world. Dammon is also a three-time recipient of the George Leland Bach Teaching Award for Excellence in the Classroom (1989, 1997 and 2007).

Dammon is a member of the American Finance Association, the American Economic Association and the Society for Financial Studies. He also has served as associate editor for several professional journals including Financial Management (2002-2008), Management Science (1993-1997, 2001-2003) and the Review of Financial Studies (1996-1999).